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We present semiclassical and quantum mechanical results for the effects of a strong magnetic field in Quantum Wires in the presence of Rashba Spin Orbit coupling. Analytical and numerical results show how the perturbation acts in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

A quantized fermion can be represented by a scalar particle encircling a magnetic flux line. It has the spinor structure which can be constructed from quantum gates and qubits. We have studied here the role of Berry phase in removing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 D. Banerjee , P. Bandyopadhyay

This article presents an overview of results pertaining to electronic structure, transport properties, and interaction effects in ballistic quantum wires with Rashba spin splitting. Limits of weak and strong spin--orbit coupling are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Governale , U. Zuelicke

A recursive Green's function technique is developed to calculate the spin-dependent conductance in mesoscopic structures. Using this technique, we study the spin-dependent electronic transport of quantum point contacts in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang , Lian Hu

The tunability of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling allows to build semiconductor heterostructures with space modulated coupling intensities. We show that a wire-shaped spin-orbit modulation in a quantum well can support propagating electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

We study the spin-dependent electronic transport through a one-dimensional ballistic quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In particular, we consider the effect of the spin-orbit interaction resulting from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

We calculate the Berry phase of a spin-1/2 particle in a magnetic field considering the quantum nature of the field. The phase reduces to the standard Berry phase in the semiclassical limit and eigenstate of the particle acquires a phase in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 I. Fuentes-Guridi , A. Carollo , S. Bose , V. Vedral

We investigate the effect of strong spin-orbit interaction on the electronic transport through non-magnetic impurities in one-dimensional systems. When a perpendicular magnetic field is applied, the electron spin polarization becomes…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. G. Pereira , E. Miranda

We investigate the influence of a perpendicular magnetic field on the spectral and spin properties of a ballistic quasi-one-dimensional electron system with Rashba effect. The magnetic field strongly alters the spin-orbit induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefan Debald , Bernhard Kramer

We present a formalism to study quantum networks made up by single-channel quantum wires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field. In particular, linear transport through one-dimensional and two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dario Bercioux , Michele Governale , Vittorio Cataudella , Vincenzo Marigliano Ramaglia

We calculate Berry's phase when the driving field, to which a spin-1/2 is coupled adiabatically, rather than the familiar classical magnetic field, is a quantum vector operator, of noncommuting, in general, components, e.g., the angular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Pedro Aguilar , Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos , Edgar Guzman

We report on numerical simulations of the intrinsic spin Hall effect in semiconductor quantum wires as a function of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling strength, the electron density, and the width of the wire. We find that the strength of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 A. W. Cummings , R. Akis , D. K. Ferry

Account of an intrinsic spin-orbit coupling in the valence bands of common semiconductors yields the scalar spin-orbit-rotation term in the effective-mass Hamiltonian of the conduction-band electron. This result is obtained within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuri A. Serebrennikov

The influence of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the electron spin dynamics is investigated for a ballistic semiconductor quantum wire with a finite width. We monitor the spin evolution using the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

Using singly connected rings with a collimating contact to current leads, we have observed the spin quantum beating in the Aharonov-Bohm conductance oscillations. We demonstrate that the beating is a result of the superposition of two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. Yang , C. H. Yang , K. A. Cheng , Y. B. Lyanda-Geller

We present measurements of the Berry Phase in a single solid-state spin qubit associated with the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. Our results demonstrate the remarkable degree of coherent control achievable in the presence of a highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-13 Kai Zhang , Naufer M. Nusran , Bradley R. Slezak , M. V. Gurudev Dutt

We have investigated the transport of spin polarization through a classically chaotic semiconductor loop with a strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We found that if the escape time of a particle is long enough, the configuration averaged…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. G. Mal'shukov , V. Shlyapin , K. A. Chao

With reference to the vacuum induced Berry phase (VIBP) obtained in the interaction of a spin-1/2 particle with quantized irradiation field under rotating-wave approximation (RWA), we present completely different treatment for the VIBP by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Tao Liu , Mang Feng , K. L. Wang

We investigate the equilibrium property of a mesoscopic ring with spin orbit (SO) interaction. It is well known that for a normal mesoscopic ring threaded by a magnetic flux, the electron acquires a Berry phase that induces the persistent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie , Jian Wang

We have obtained numerically exact results for the spin-related geometric quantum phases that arise in p-type semiconductor ring structures. The interplay between gate-controllable (Rashba) spin splitting and quantum-confinement-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-03 M. Jaaskelainen , U. Zuelicke